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Well, 2018 is dead and gone. Time to take a look back at the year in AI/ML. A reminder that I work for DataRobot. This is my personal blog. Opinions are mine. On the Move It’s hard to believe that Amazon Web Services introduced Amazon SageMaker just a year ago, but here we are. AWS moved aggressively to enhance the

Forrester recently published the Wave™ for Predictive Analytics And Machine Learning Solutions. You can purchase a copy from Forrester for $2,495, or get a free copy here. When Forrester last delivered this analysis in 2015, they called it the Wave™ for Big Data Predictive Analytics Solutions. So, I guess that Big Data is “out” and machine learning is “in.” The chart below shows the

Last week, Forrester published its 2015 “Wave” report for Big Data Predictive Analytics Solutions. You can pay $2,495 and buy it directly from Forrester (here), or you can get the same report for free from SAS (here). The report is inaptly named, as it commingles software that scales to Big Data (such as Alpine Chorus) with software that does not

This week, Spark Summit East produced a deluge of news and analysis on Apache Spark and Databricks. Also in the news: a couple of ventures landed funding, SAP released software and SAS soft-launched something new for SAS Visual Analytics. Analytic Startups Venture Capital Dispatch on WSJ.D reports that Andreeson Horowitz has invested $7.5 million in AMPLab spinout Tachyon Nexus. Tachyon

A colleague asks: can we automate predictive modeling? How we answer the question depends on the context. Consider the two variations on the question below, with more precise wording: Can we completely eliminate the need for expertise in predictive modeling — so that an “ordinary business user” can do it? Can we make expert analysts more productive by automating

First, some background. — SAS is a privately held company. Founder and CEO Jim Goodnight owns a controlling interest. — Goodnight is 71 years old. — Goodnight’s children are not engaged in management of the business. Within the next few years, SAS faces a dual transition of management and ownership. This should be a concern for customers and prospective

SAP announced today that it plans to acquire KXEN in a deal that will close in the fourth quarter. No purchase price was announced. Since one recently laid-off employee characterized the company’s prospects as “circling the toilet”, this seems like a case of bottom-feeding by SAP. KXEN has struggled to position and sell its InfiniteInsight analytic software. The vendor’s black-boxy approach